Here are some trivial conversations my husband and I have had recently involving fruits:
Hubby: Honey, do you want some grapes?
Me: No, but thanks.
Hubby: But they're so good!
Me: I'm sure they are! They look great.
Hubby: So how about you try some?
Me: No, really, I don't want any. Thanks.
Hubby: What, you don't like grapes or something????
Me: I never said that! I do like grapes! I'm just not in the mood for them! (Sheesh!)
***
Hubby: Wow, these are the best strawberries I've ever tasted.
Me: Darling, you say that every time we buy strawberries.
Hubby: No I don't! Oh, but these are so goooood!
2 weeks later...
Hubby: Oh my goodness, these strawberries we just bought are the best ever.
Me: .....
***
One day, my husband was in the kitchen while my kids and I were in a next room. All of the sudden, we heard him exclaim, "OH MY GOD!!!"
We all rushed to the kitchen to see what was the matter.
"Baba, what's wrong???"
He was standing with the fridge door open "I can't believe we are out of apples!!"
And therein was the crisis.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
What? Huh? What did you say? Aysh??
My husband does this weird thing. A lot. It drives me and our kids crazy sometimes. It's nothing big or important, really. Just a little irritating.
Often we'll all be in the same room. He'll get up, go to another room, close the door and THEN proceed to say something to one of us. Of course, since he's in the next room, it's hard to hear what he's saying. So one of us has to track him down to get a better listen.
I always ask, "You couldn't think of saying this/asking this WHILE you were in the room with us?"
Similar story with the volume of the radio or TV. I personally like to have the volume a little on the low side, because we have kids and we don't need so much noise going on in our house. However, Hubby will often turn the volume up to hear better. OK that's no big deal. Unfortunately it is usually immediately after he turns up the volume that he decides to say or ask something. Again, as in the previous example, we cannot hear him so either there's a lot of "What?" or "Huh?" or I just take it upon myself to turn the volume back down.
He especially likes to do this when we have someone from Yemen visiting us and we're driving them somewhere. Hubby will blast a Yemeni music CD (it's kind of a way to show off that we have music from back home I guess?) and then try to have a normal conversation with the guest. Neither person can hear the other well, and I'm just sitting in the back seat, doing a facepalm the whole time.
This has been going on for twenty years.
Often we'll all be in the same room. He'll get up, go to another room, close the door and THEN proceed to say something to one of us. Of course, since he's in the next room, it's hard to hear what he's saying. So one of us has to track him down to get a better listen.
I always ask, "You couldn't think of saying this/asking this WHILE you were in the room with us?"
Similar story with the volume of the radio or TV. I personally like to have the volume a little on the low side, because we have kids and we don't need so much noise going on in our house. However, Hubby will often turn the volume up to hear better. OK that's no big deal. Unfortunately it is usually immediately after he turns up the volume that he decides to say or ask something. Again, as in the previous example, we cannot hear him so either there's a lot of "What?" or "Huh?" or I just take it upon myself to turn the volume back down.
He especially likes to do this when we have someone from Yemen visiting us and we're driving them somewhere. Hubby will blast a Yemeni music CD (it's kind of a way to show off that we have music from back home I guess?) and then try to have a normal conversation with the guest. Neither person can hear the other well, and I'm just sitting in the back seat, doing a facepalm the whole time.
This has been going on for twenty years.
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